"business solutions based on cutting edge
environmental science and technology"

At AEF, we specialize in bringing the latest scientific and technological advances from the environmental modeling research community to the marketplace. AEF scientists take pride in their knowledge of the latest research, and they use their connections to the scientific community to quickly apply these developments to the real-world challenges faced by businesses every day.

AEF's coupled-ocean-atmosphere hurricane forecast system is an excellent example of the AEF Advantage at work. During the mid 1990s, one of AEF's co-founders, Dr. Isaac Ginis, demonstrated that accurate prediction of the sea surface temperature underneath an evolving hurricane is essential to accurate prediction of the hurricane's track and intensity. By 1997, Drs. Ginis, Rothstein, and collaborators had successfully coupled an ocean forecast model to the tropical cyclone forecast model developed at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton. One year later, extensive testing had demonstrated that the new coupled-ocean-atmosphere tropical cyclone forecast model yielded forecasts that were consistently 25% better than those from the original atmosphere only hurricane forecast model. In 1999, AEF provided forecasts based on this system to a variety of clients. While our clients immediately benefitted from the new technology, the National Weather Service continued to test the new forecast system for an additional two years, waiting until the 2001 hurricane season to make this model the nation's first operational coupled-ocean-atmosphere forecast model.

At AEF, we are ideally positioned to deliver solutions based on the leading edge of science and technology to the business community. We continually invest in the development and refinement of new and unique technologies that enable our clients to effectively manage the environmental challenges of today and tomorrow.